People keep asking me, and I haven’t really had an answer, but now yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.

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Cake day: March 18th, 2025
  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earthtoLinux@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 days ago

    LibreOffice will function perfectly fine for a single user taking classroom notes, or making a presentation, or a spreadsheet, or what have you. You might notice it crash occasionally, but in the dozen or so times it crashed on me, it has a 100% success rate at recovering the file. It’s kind of remarkable.

  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earthtopolitics @lemmy.world•FCC investigating Disney, ABC for DEI initiatives
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    16 days ago

    These legal challenges are effectively bribes. The regime knows businesses would rather spend less money kowtowing than fighting a massive, nebulous lawsuit for years (with judges who are already in the their pocket, so you know which way they’ll rule regardless of evidence and arguments).

    So all they have to do is toss out an executive order or lawsuit revoking funding, or revoking security clearances, or going after DEI policies. The natural conclusion, even to the target company, is that fighting would be more expensive and not even likely to result in a victory.

    “Disney settles with the FCC for $500 million” is the headline you’ll read in June, which translates to “Disney paid Trump $500 million to leave them alone”.

  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earthtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Downvote brigading via third instance hypothetical
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    17 days ago

    On the one hand, one of the things we often tout about the Old Internet was the ability for anyone to run their own website, forum, blog, etc, free from corporatization. On the other hand, running your website is a responsibility on your part, and in the convenience-focused Internet we have now, seems to be a forgotten lesson.

    On the third, mutant hand growing out of our back, fedi software should be designed with security-by-default, i.e. no open registration, to prevent the forgotten lesson from being a huge problem.

  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earthtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Downvote brigading via third instance hypothetical
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    17 days ago

    In the wild, it’s far more common for them to just spin up a bunch of accounts across “good” instances (particularly those without registration applications) and coordinate.

    In 2023, this happened to a ton of unsecured Misskey instances who then proceeded to spam most of the Fediverse. It was just a troll in reality, but revealed that the Fediverse is no less vulnerable to coordinated, sophisticated attacks (and with how politically minded it is, there’s plenty of incentive for nation state actors to do so).